Friday's Top 50 Social Media News & Stories
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U.K.-based digital marketer Stuart Davidson offers a handy list of “ 30 Best Social Media Monitoring Tools for Business .” These tools help businesses monitor their industry, reputations, customers, competitors and content. &...
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Jesse Stay is a long-time friend of us at Blitzmetrics, and an accomplished author. We caught up with him for an interview on the strategy behind Familyshare.com’s Facebook presence. — Dennis Yu I’ll speak today in...
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A new social network called Sobrr erases everything in 24 hours. Users can “keep” connections with other users or choose to be “24-hour friends,” interacting with follows, comments and cheers. Photos are tagged ge...
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Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. LinkedIn Replaces its Contacts iOS App with Connected to Take the ‘Work’ Out of Networking (The Next Web) LinkedIn Thursday replaced its Contacts app for iOS with C...
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Do you believe that you provide good customer service? Are you wondering why customer service is so important to your business? To learn how service and social media tie together, I interview John DiJulius for this episode of the Social ...
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BlackBerry's plan to launch BBM for Windows Phone by June clearly fell by the wayside. Now it says it's releasing a beta version, though those easily frustrated by buggy software are asked to wait "just a bit longer" for the full product...
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Nestl Purina PetCare's Friskies brand is launching The Friskies 50, a takeoff of the Forbes Celebrity 100 focusing on influencers of the four-legged variety.
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The father of Vine star Nash Grier is speaking out as his son continues to face backlash for a video clip showing the North Carolina teen using an anti-gay slur. Chad Grier told the Charlotte Observer Wednesday the video was “stupid and ...
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April 20, or 4/20, is informally known as the nation's stoner holiday, but now, apparently, there’s another one. On July 10 -- aka 7/10, 7:10, or 710 -- “Happy 710” trended on Twitter when users began discussing the new, informal marijua...
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No one does Instagram quite like Brazil's national soccer team Despite an embarrassing 7-1 drubbing at the hands of Germany on Tuesday, Brazil's national squad still has one title no country can take away: The Seleção is the mo...
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There was a fascinating report this week about how a media company is measuring methods to successfully manipulate the emotions of its audience, causing them to take action, and perhaps part with their money. No it's not Facebook. The co...
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The two agencies are part of a larger trend of late, in which many Washington bureaucracies have attempted to add texture to their often-staid public images via funky, zany social media accounts. The phenomenon hasn’t been without contro...
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As Instagram slowly starts to mix in some advertising, the major question for the photo-sharing app is how it will become a source of monetization for Facebook. While Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg or COO Sheryl Sandberg...
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What happened when the sporting goods subsidiary of a tire company in Canada scrapped its traditional weekly circular for two weeks in favor of advertising on Facebook? Duncan Fulton, chief marketing officer of FGL Sports and senior vic...
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You can now embed your favorite Vine videos on your Tumblr blog, and Tumblr couldn't be more jazzed about that The blogging service, which is owned by Yahoo!, announced the new integration over Twitter on Thursday. If you're wondering ho...
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Slow Internet speeds are the bane of video streamers. As cord cutting becomes a better option, and video streaming increases its bandwidth demands every year, streaming providers have started poking at ISPs to increase their speeds. YouT...
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The Huffington Post was the top publisher on Facebook in June, in terms of both shares and overall interactions ( likes , shares, and comments ), according to the latest data from social media news aggregator NewsWhip . (more…...
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As one of the developer community's biggest ad partners, Facebook has decided to allow it to sell virtual goods directly from ads in user News Feeds, and the right-hand column of user pages. Facebook is encouraging developers to create d...
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In recently published research, Stone Temple Consulting found less than 1.5 billion Twitter pages indexed in Google across two queries, although the social site reported back in October 2013 that it processed about 500 million tweets dai...
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Developers with games that use virtual goods can now sell those virtual goods directly via ads in Facebook’s News Feed or right-hand-side ads following an update to the social network’s desktop application ads . (more…) New Ca...
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Digital ad spending is a booming market. As more traditional media companies realize the value of online marketing — and newer Internet-savvy businesses come into their own — digital advertising has become a more competitive ...
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The "Dum Dums Drums" app features the brand's mascot, Dum Dums Drum Man, in 3D animation, challenging players to "repeat the beats" and match his drumming skills by tapping drums and cymbals with their fingers.
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Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) has written a letter to the Federal Trade Commission regarding Facebook’s controversial emotion experiment, seeking to have the commission examine the ordeal. “I come from the technology world, and I und...
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"In the same way a TV show creates a live event [for broadcast], we're going to have a 'live VOD' release,'" Patricia Nelson, head of marketing at FilmBuff, tells "Marketing Daily." "Social is something I'm super-passionate about, and it...
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A study Facebook conducted in 2012 , along with Cornell University and the University of California-San Francisco , in which the researchers randomly selected 689,003 Facebook users and tinkered with the number of positive or negative s...
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Facebook announced today a new way for app developers to prompt purchases of virtual goods right from the News Feed. Developers can create News Feed (or sidebar) ads that allow users to make a purchase of...
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Global growth switches from Facebook to mobile.
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The threats to the free and open nature of the Internet are many, from an Internet toll road to government censorship of social networks or websites. In light of these concerns, the Pew Research Internet Project surveyed more than 1,400 ...
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As social media has become an essential part of journalism, tools for searching, monitoring and curating content from around the web are increasingly part of a journalist's day-to-day toolbox - both for newsgathering and engaging users. ...
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Tougher penalties may be needed to deal with Twitter and Facebook users who are "deliberately naming and abusing" rape victims online, a legal adviser to the Crown Prosecution Service has said. In a House of Lords hearing, Tim Thompson s...
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A 17-year-old boy in Manassas City, Virginia, has been charged with "manufacturing and distributing child pornography," after "sexting" his 15-year-old girlfriend. The police now, however, wants to create its own weird kiddie porn in ord...
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What if fashion-collage-machine Polyvore and social-image-pinboard Pinterest had a baby? Well, that lovechild would be a little service called Looklist, and it’s coming out of private beta today. Let me explain: Looklist is a searc...
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While some professions are basically shoo-ins for social media (journalists and Twitter, for example) others have been much slower to embrace the online universe, especially in cases where using social media might run afoul of legal and ...
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Like a number of ad agencies, Google set up a “newsroom” to monitor buzz around the World Cup, and turn trending topics and stories into viral content. Invited to sit in on the action, NPR’s Aarti Shahani was struck by ...
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Sending nudes via text is a pretty bad idea. As a select few celebrities well know, the pics can end up in the wrong hands and wind up on the Internet. Or possibly even worse, the sext could get sent to your dad.
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Business Insider considers the curious case of CYNK, which, at least on paper, appears to be the hottest social media company on the market. Having seen its stock jump from $0.10 to $14.71 in less than a month, the company currently boas...
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The media is full of horror stories about online dangers, but -- in all but a few categories -- offline risk dwarfs its online equivalent. Stranger danger vs. trusted adults Let's start with children. Every parent worries about their kid...
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London-based startup This Place has developed a software that lets Google Glass users snap a photo just by thinking about it, and even share it to social media sites. The app MindRDR works with NeuroSky’s commercially available bra...
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A recent study by YouGov found that while more than half of Americans agree that it’s easier to find a date online than in a public place, and over one-third of them think that online relationships can last, only one-fifth of Ameri...
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Though T-Mobile is once again the most socially devoted Facebook brand in the U.S., overall response rate from brands dipped by 10 percent over the past month, according to a report by Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer...
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The second semifinal match at 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil did not approach the first in terms of game play or Facebook buzz, but according to the Facebook Data Science Team , the victory by Argentina over the Netherlands on penalty ki...
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Social channels will come and go. Why are we still surprised by this? Just last week, Catharine Taylor talked about the ennui that's threatening to silence Twitter. Frankly, the only thing surprising about this is that Twitter has had th...
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LinkedIn announced that it is launching a new iPhone app called Connected, which is replacing its Contacts app. The app lets you know when people in your network change jobs, are mentioned in the news, have work anniversaries or birthday...
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Have wearables gone wild? Elliott Morgan discusses if there’s even a market for things like the smart hoodie . Yesterday, Elliott looks into all the super-cool fake Twitter accounts out there. Read more... More about Social Media ,...
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Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer and Chief Product Officer Chris Cox reported their respective sales of Facebook shares in Form 4 filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission . (more…) New Career Opportun...
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